Curtain-pole-supporting attachment.



E. PRATT. CURTAIN POLE SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1a.1915.

1,165,625. Patented Dec.28,1915.

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ELI PRATT, OE BAY CITY, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 OLIVER DUQETTE,

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MICHIGAN.

GURTAIN-IPOLE-SUPPOBTING ATTACHMENT.

Application filed March 13,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI PRATT, a citizen of the United States, residingat Bay City, in the county of Bay and State of Michigan, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-PoleSupportingAttachments, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings. 7

My invention relates to devices for supporting curtain poles, andparticularly to an attachment adapted to be applied to an ordinary shadebracket and adapted to support a curtain pole in connection therewith.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a very simple device soconstructed that it may be readily applied to and engage with anordinary roller shade bracket, and which when in place will support thecurtain pole from which lace curtains usually hang.

A further object of the invention is to so form this device that it maybe cheaply and simply made and may be sold at avery small cost.

My invention is illustrated in the acompanying drawings, wherein- Figure1 is a top plan view of a shade roller and bracket arms therefor with myattachment engaged with the brackets; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of theconstruction shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-8 ofFig. 2; 4: is a persective view of the curtain pole detached.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that my attachment consistsof a length of wire 2 angularly bent to provide arms 3 and 4 extendingat right angles to each other, these arms when in position upon thebracket being disposed in a horizontal plane. The arm 3 at its outer endis bent as at 5 to form a curved seat for the end of the curtain pole,while the arm 4: at its extremity is bent upward then at right angles asat 6, this portion 6 beingalso at right angles to the plane of themembers 3 and 4t, and the extremity of this portion 6 is inwardly bentas at 7 and then downwardly bent as at 8.

In use the device is applied as follows: As illustrated in Fig. 1, thedevice is adapted to be applied to an ordinary shade roller-downwardlybent,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2%, 1915.

1915. serial No. 14,208.

bracket which is designated A, this shade roller bracket being attachedto the window casing 13. These shade roller brackets have seats orbearings at their extremities for the reception of the usual shaderoller C, and also each of these shade roller brackets is usually formedintermediate the base of the bracket and the bearing for the shaderoller with a perforation a. The portion 8 of my attachment is intendedto be inserted through this opening from the inside face of the bracketso that the upper wall of the perforation a will bear against the bend 7while the portion 6 will extend upward upon the inner face of thebracket and will bear at its upper end upon the upper edge of thebracket, the portion 4 thus extending downward at right angles to thebracket.

I have found in practice that this device is entirely effective insupporting the curtain pole, inasmuch as the portions 6, 7 and 8 can notrotate upon the bracket A, the device being held from rotation upon thebracket A by the bend at the uncture of the portions 6 and 4.

It is obvious that my device may be very cheaply made and sold at a verylow cost and is very easily applied. It will of course be obvious thatthese supporting members may be formed in a more or less ornamentalshape, and I therefore do not wish to be limited to the exact designillustrated.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

The combination with a shade roller bracket having a perforation formedin its body portion; of a curtain pole support coacting therewith, saidsupport consisting of a length of material bent to provide arms in rightangular relation to each other, one arm extending toward the bracket,the second arm being disposed in parallelism with the bracket andpositioned outwardly therefrom, the extremity of said second armterminating in advance of the outer extremity of the bracket and beingprovided with a curtain pole seat, the first named arm at its inner endbeing upwardly deflected to bear upon the upper edge of'the bracket andthen the intermediate part of In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

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the downwardly disposed portion being laterally deflected, saiddownwardly disposed portion being insertible through the opening in thecurtain pole bracket wherebyengage 5 ment is had with the opposite facesof the bracket.

Witnesses GILBERT DUROCHER," OLIVER DUQUETTE.

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